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SCHLAN (Czech, Slang)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 328 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHLAN (Czech,
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town of Bohemia, 37 M . N.W. of Prague by
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rail . Pop . (1900) 9491, mostly Czech . The most notable churches are St Gotthard (14th century, remodelled in 1782) St Mary, attached to the Piarist college (1655–1658), the
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chapel of St Lawrence (13th century) and the church of the
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Holy Trinity belonging to the Franciscan friary (1655) . There are extensive
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coal-fields and important iron, metal and machine
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industries, together with the manufacture of chemicals and corn-milling . Schlan—probably the name of a castle—occurs in documents of the loth century . The town was probably founded in the 13th century by Ottakar II . In the Hussite
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wars it took the utraquist side, was occupied in 1420 by King Sigismund, but retaken the next
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year by the troops of Prague . These were expelled, in 1425, after a desperate resistance by the Taborites and Orphans . The town now remained faithful to the Taborite cause till its collapse in 1434 . The place was re-fortified between 146o and 1472 .

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battle of the White Hill (1620), Schlan was granted to Jaroslaus Boiita of Martinic, lord of Smecno, whose descendants still own the lordship .

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